kindling

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• Hiller opens a barrel, lifts out wood particles and pieces of kindling, and lets them run through his fingers.

• He is a slightly built New Englander, in tie and shirtsleeves, whose sense of humor is about as dry and incendiary as kindling.

• His riff toward the end when he bragged about winning three times in a blue state just might have been the kindling.

• The new health care ads are designed to jack up sentiments to the kindling point.

• Tim got down on the hearth and began piling paper and kindling and logs in the fireplace.

• "The Church is very just," the priest answered him, more sternly still, a holy wrath kindling his sombre eyes.

• Her eyes, now kindling again as she recovered from her recent fears, sought Fortunio's shifty glance.

• "It would be idle," came Wilding's icy voice to quench the gleam of hope kindling anew in Richard's breast.

• The terrible, slow-kindling anger of this Northerner made Durnovo catch his breath.